ISLAMABAD 17 Aug 17 (TNS):\u00a0\u00a0 Pakistan Rangers Punjab have apprehended seven ‘terrorists’ and 20 ‘Afghan suspects’ in intelligence-based operations carried out in Attock, DG Khan and Lahore over the past three days, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
A large quantity of explosives, automatic weapons and ammunition was recovered in the operations, which were carried out alongside police and intelligence agencies, the ISPR said.<\/p>\n
The ‘terrorists’ that have been taken into custody are affiliated with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, the ISPR claimed.<\/p>\n
According to the ISPR, the explosives and weapons recovered in the raids were likely to be used for terrorist activities in major cities of Punjab.<\/p>\n
Taxila operation<\/strong><\/p>\n Intelligence agencies and police arrested two suspects and recovered 20 kilograms of explosives, 35 detonators, Afghan and UAE currency, along with heavy weapons in a combined operation in various parts of Taxila on Wednesday.<\/p>\n According to details one suspect managed to escape custody during the operation.<\/p>\n Suspects Imran Ali Baqwi and Hashim Ali were taken into custody along with Abdul Rehman, who later managed to escape from police custody.<\/p>\n Police is currently conducting a search operation for the escaped suspect.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ISLAMABAD 17 Aug 17 (TNS):\u00a0\u00a0 Pakistan Rangers Punjab have apprehended seven ‘terrorists’ and 20 ‘Afghan suspects’ in intelligence-based operations carried out in Attock, DG Khan and Lahore over the past three days, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday. A large quantity of explosives, automatic weapons and ammunition was recovered in the operations, which were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[589],"class_list":["post-14112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14115,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14112\/revisions\/14115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}